Cuff-fastener



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S V. THOMAS.

CUFF FASTENER.

No. 344,605. Patented June 29, 1886.

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UNITED SrATEs ArnNr STEPHEN V. THOMAS, OF WEST BRANCH, MICHIGAN.

CUFF-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 344,605, dated June 29, 1886.

Application filed April 23, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, STEPHEN V. THOMAS, of Vest Branch, in the county of Ogemaw and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a fastener or retaining device for connecting a cuff to the shirtsleeve with facility and at any point on the sleeve, higher up or lower down, as may be required, the same being designed to take the place of the cuffbuttou.

It consists in a fastener made of spring-wire and in a single piece, and of a peculiarly-bent construction, which I will now proceed to describe.

Figure 1 isaside view of thcfastener shown applied to a shirt-sleeve and cuff, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the fastener.

In the drawings, A represents the fastener, which is made of one piece of springwire, one end of which is bent to form a pointed hook, a, and the other end, (Z, of which is bent to form a double loop, b I), oneof which,b, forms a keeper for the pointed end of the hook to catch into after the manner of a safety-pin, and the other loop, I), of which embraces and strengthens the main stem. From this point the main stem 0 and end cl extend a short distance in parallel position and then terminate Serial No. 199,965. (No model.)

in an offsetting loop or eye, 0, in which the main stem and end d run or extend the one into the other. This offsetting loop or eye 6 forms a sort of button, which is inserted into the button-holes of the cuff, while: the pointed hook is pinned into the shirt-sleeve and then fastened by being inserted in the keeper-loop b, like a safety-pin.

I am aware that cuff-holders bearing a certain degree of resemblance to mine have been heretofore constructed-such, for instance, as those shown in Patents Nos. 323,449 and 229,324-and I only claim my peculiar construction shown, which is distinctive in the peculiar construction of holder as bent out of 5 

